Re: [PATCH] module: Clarify GPL-Compatible is OK
From: Arend van Spriel
Date: Sun Apr 08 2012 - 08:49:46 EST
On 04/07/2012 09:03 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
You do not need to make dual licenses when licenses are compatible
with each other, and in fact at times this can confuse developers / legal.
Firstly you are out of order touching the licensing tags of other vendors
code. Absolutely and utterly. So nobody should for example be touching an
Intel MODULE_LICENSE() tag without the say so of Intel legal.
As the patch also includes driver code that Broadcom contributed to the
kernel, I am inclined to agree. But to me it is not clear whether the
MODULE_LICENSE() tag holds a true legal value. How does it relate to the
legal disclaimer that is (probably) in each and every source file?
Gr. AvS
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/